6 Inasmuch 



vi?Sh! on f In the letters patent granted by James I. in 

 1606 for the plantation of Virginia, it is said, 

 &quot;So noble a work may by the providence of God, 

 tend to the glory of His Divine Majesty, in 

 propagating the Christian religion to such people 

 as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance 

 of the true knowledge and worship of God.&quot; 



Three years afterward a new charter was 

 granted, and a few months before the expedition 

 sailed, William Crashaw, preacher at the Temple, 

 in a noble sermon said, among other things, to 

 the Virginian Council, &quot;Remember the end of 

 this voyage is the end of the devil s kingdom, 

 and the propagation of the Gospel.&quot; Turning to 

 Lord De La Warr, the Captain-General of the 

 Expedition, and his subordinates, he said, &quot;Look 

 not at the gain, the wealth, the honour, the ad 

 vancement of thy house; but look at those 

 high and better ends, that concern the Kingdom 

 of God. Remember thou art a general of Chris 

 tian men, therefore, principally look to religion. 

 You go to commend it toward the heathen, then 

 practise it yourselves.&quot; One of the first things 

 done in the colony was the erection of a college 

 at Henrico, &quot;for the training and educating the 

 children of the natives in the knowledge of the 

 true God.&quot; Letters were written by James and 

 the two Archbishops, inviting the members of 

 the Church throughout the Kingdom, to con 

 tribute &quot;as well for the enlarging of our domin 

 ions, as for the propagation of the Gospel among 

 the infidels, wherein there is good progress made.&quot; 



